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...schoolboy in Brittany, Pierre Henri dreamed of traveling one day to the frozen Arctic. As a missionary priest of the Oblate Order of Mary the Immaculate, he finally got the chance to realize his dream...
Finding the Eskimos well-adjusted to their harsh environment, Father Henri encouraged them to live on the natural resources provided by the Arctic. Too much contact with trading posts, he found, tended to undermine their self-reliance and their health. "The easy life corrupts them," he says. "It is sad to see such a noble race decline." To set a good example, he lived entirely on a diet of frozen fish for three years, something no white man had ever attempted. An attack of ague later forced him to vary the diet somewhat with flour-and-water biscuits...
...noise and glaring lights; he admitted that he found white men's beds uncomfortable after years of sleeping in caribou-skin bags. Last week, weighing the same 140 lbs. as when his mission began, he flew to France, where he will report to his superiors and recruit new Arctic missionaries. Next year Father Henri hopes to go back to the North, pioneer a new region, and spend his remaining days among the Eskimos he understands and loves. "I'll never wish to come out again," he says. "I don't understand how you can bear it here...
...itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive with a literary bent) "always within an arm's length of desire." And where there is no desire for it, Coke creates desire. Its advertising, which garnishes the world from the edge of the Arctic to the Cape of Good Hope, has created more new appetites and thirsts in more people than an army of dancing girls bearing jugs of wine. It has brought refrigeration to sweltering one-ox towns without plumbing, and it has transformed men one generation removed from jungle barter into American salesmen with an irresistibly sincere...
Only a producer extremely confident of his ability would dare to make a full-length documentary of Michelangelo's life and work in which not one actor appears. Robert J. Flaherty, who filmed the Arctic classic, "Nanook of the North," is evidently a man with the necessary confidence; the fact that "The Titan" is both an artistic and popular success is proof that he has not deceived himself...